On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 12:32, John Harris <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Monday, January 7, 2019 11:34:47 AM EST Ben Cotton wrote: > > The Fedora community cares about privacy and is adverse to tracking > > measures. We don't want to track; just count. > > If this is ever implemented, we should probably notify end users and provide > an easy way to disable this. If you pass an identifier, that enables client > tracking. > The original proposla was looking at something to what yum has had built into it for a while. Every yum installation has a file /var/lib/yum/uuid which contains whatever was pulled from /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid when yum was installed. Here is one example 34cb9496-a62c-496e-8935-22f550247262 The change for yum (EPEL) systems would then have been: metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-7&arch=$basearch to metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-7&arch=$basearch&uuid=$uuid And if dnf had a similar file it would be metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-30&arch=$basearch&uuid=$uuid This would then be seen by the proxies and could be used to clear up various proxy numbers. For a user who does not want this, they could either zero out /var/lib/yum/uuid, /etc/yum/vars/uuid or remove the uuid= from the yum.repos.d files. [I expect that the final implementation will be something like this also.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
